Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:52:49 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c Message-ID: <20050415225249.GL837@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--fFZg0b+WaoCdn4Fq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:45:02PM +0000, John Baldwin wrote: +> jhb 2005-04-15 21:45:02 UTC +>=20 +> FreeBSD src repository +>=20 +> Modified files: +> sys/vm vm_pageq.c=20 +> Log: +> Add a vm.blacklist tunable which can hold a space or comma seperated l= ist +> of physical addresses. The pages containing these physical addresses = will +> not be added to the free list and thus will effectively be ignored by = the +> VM system. This is mostly useful for the case when one knows of speci= fic +> physical addresses that have bit errors (such as from a memtest run) so +> that one can blacklist the bad pages while waiting for the new sticks = of +> RAM to arrive. The physical addresses of any ignored pages are listed= in +> the message buffer as well. Nice. Would be good to have it documented somewhere, not sure where... --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --fFZg0b+WaoCdn4Fq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCYEXBForvXbEpPzQRAjcuAJ9IIEfrvFou8fez2YQ/PO3uJH8CewCgiYpf +6yLpHHy8zjpaGCur/yTWnY= =0jol -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fFZg0b+WaoCdn4Fq--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050415225249.GL837>